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L'apparition du « Land Grabbing » que les chinois accélèrent à travers le continent s'inscrit-il dans la perpétuation de ces comportements des dirigeants africains comme sous la coupole occidentale, sachant qu'ils ne sont tenus par aucun passif colonial avec le géant de l'empire du milieu ?

China Investment Corporation's purchase of an $856m stake in Noble Group, the commodities trading company, is the clearest indication yet that Beijing wants to secure agricultural commodities supplies after last year's food crisis.

China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corp, has bought a 14.5 per cent stake in grain trading and production firm Noble Group for US$850 million.

La Chine est à la recherche de grandes exploitations agricoles à l'étranger à des fins d'investissement et pour assurer son autosuffisance alimentaire selon des critères qui excluent pour l'instant la plupart des pays européens dont la France.

During Pervez Musharraf’s time, Beijing had proposed that it be leased 2,000 acres of land for a period of 10 to 15 years with the agreement that China would make technological and financial investments in the land, invest in newer forms of seeds and other products and leave the new infrastructure to the state or the owners after the termination of the contract.

China's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund has added privately-held commodities trader Glencore International AG, which also controls around 300,000 ha of farmland, to its roster of approved investment partners as it deepens its access to global raw material markets, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters

Casi 20 millones de hectáreas en África, Asia o América Latina han pasado a manos de gobiernos o inversores privados extranjeros

Après le pétrole, les minerais, les Chinois à la conquête des terres agricoles africaines…Exemple au Cameroun

What started as a government drive to secure cheap food resource has now become a viable business model and many Gulf companies are venturing into agricultural investments to diversify their portfolios.

The problem is that we will lose control. Of course, some regulatory framework will be put in place, but it will also include ceding of control over our land resource to foreigners for a yet-to-be-specified time period.

Ministro das Relações Exteriores das Ilhas Maurício diz que seu governo assegurou uma vasta área de terra em Moçambique para produzir arroz para seu país.

Ray White Rural chairman Paul White said there was interest in Australian rural property from Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian investment groups, looking to secure their food supply for the future.